On Political Wire 9 posts

Aug 17, 2020
‘Anonymous’ Urges Vote for Biden
The self-described “senior Trump administration official,” who anonymously trashed the president’s leadership in a 2018 op-ed and a 2019 best-selling book, is calling for voters to throw the president out of office this November in a new preface for the paperback “2020 election edition” of…
Nov 20, 2019
Trump Regularly ‘Can’t Remember’ Things
Newsweek: "Much of the nearly 260 pages of the anonymous official's tome, A Warning, which hit bookshelves on Tuesday, has been dedicated to sounding the alarm about Trump's alarming behavior."
Nov 12, 2019
Book By Anonymous Sets Record for Pre-Orders
A Warning, written by an anonymous person who has worked at a senior level in the Trump administration, has "garnered more pre-orders than any other nonfiction book at any imprint in the history of Hachette," CNN reports.
Nov 7, 2019
Trump Officials Considered Mass Resignation
"Senior Trump administration officials considered resigning en masse last year in a 'midnight self-massacre' to sound a public alarm about President Trump’s conduct, but rejected the idea because they believed it would further destabilize an already teetering government, according to a new book by an…
Nov 6, 2019
Aides Thought Pence Would Back Use of 25th Amendment
"The much-anticipated book A Warning, reportedly written by an unnamed senior White House official, claims that high-level White House aides were certain that Vice President Mike Pence would support the use of the 25th Amendment to have President Trump removed from office because of mental…
Nov 4, 2019
Justice Dept. Asks for Details on Anonymous Author
"The Justice Department is trying to unearth the identity of the Trump administration official who denounced the president in a New York Times Op-Ed last year under the byline Anonymous, according to a letter from a senior law enforcement official on Monday," the New York…
Nov 2, 2019
Critics Question Why an Author Stays Anonymous
Earlier this year, literary agents Matt Latimer and Keith Urbahn "were invited to meet with a senior administration official at a private location. They did not know why until they got there," the New York Times reports.
Oct 25, 2019
‘Anonymous’ to Expose Private Trump Conversations
The anonymous "senior Trump administration official" who will release a tell-all book, A Warning, next month was a frequent participant in meetings with President Trump and plans to recount specific conversations, sources tell Mike Allen.
Oct 22, 2019
Anonymous Op-Ed Writer Has Written a Book
"The author of an anonymous column in the New York Times in 2018, who was identified as a senior Trump administration official acting as part of the 'resistance' inside the government, has written a tell-all book to be published next month," the Washington Post reports.